Show memorial to strauss the most important memorial to strauss st in vienna a statue unveiled in I 1 1921 stands in the Stadt park in the heart of the city the composer is represented in gilded bronze playing a violin while behind him rises a pergola of white marble from which 11 figures in relief seem to break as if from the waves of the danube and to dance to his famous waltz other parts of vienna too have memorials of the life of strauss his birthplace is 15 lerch and the cottage in which he composed his first waltz at the age of 6 stands at Sal manns dorf near the city |